Snow Day Chiller

Early morning, it’s dark and still,

The world’s noise silenced by winter’s snowy chill.

Snow on pavements, roads, trees and fields,

Everything suffering, everything yields.

Trees, their limbs cold and white,

Bow in Easterly wind’s deadly sight.

Blackbird, Blue Tit, Thrush and Jay

Urgently eating fat to keep hunger at bay.

The fox paws at the icy lake,

His thirst he would slake.

Now people emerge out from behind their doors

Community Spirit to the fore,

Spades and Shovels galore.

We’ll get this thawed.

Our small piece of world was glowing clean, bright and white,

Until the Gritters churned it into a building site.

Children’s snowmen gaily decorated in scarves and hats

Parents secretly smile behind their backs.

They know this weather will soon be whacked.

It won’t be long before they’ll all be disassembled and lying flat.

“Come in now kids, its getting dark – you still have that homework to start”.

Evening is here, humans think they did a good days work today, but,

They've forgotten old man Frost, Jack that is,

He’s only just come out and he going to play

I hate this cold weather, isn't that a fact.

©Kris Prevel